Along with the car, a spoken presentation of the model will take place in the Reid Conference Center. There, Mathis will give those attending an insight into how his team was capable of building a model as efficient as the Edison2. (For the record, the efforts the team made to bring the car to life were considerable, as they've worked on the project for two years).
The Automotive X Prize, one of the toughest and at the same time best rewarded competitions of car design, focuses on the creation of fuel efficient cars and vehicles that are likely to shape our future.
Last year, the competition awarded $10 million to three teams that managed to build vehicles that, if mass produced, will be capable of achieving at least 100 miles per gallon in real world driving (or 100 MPGe, miles per gallon or its energy equivalent). The cars also had to meet two other essential requirements: they had to be both safe and affordable.
Last year, nine vehicles from seven teams managed to enter the final, including the rather well-known three wheeler Aptera 2e. Edison2 had to compete for the money against other fierce competitors as well, including Wave II from Li-ion Motors or Alias from ZAP.
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